Yonatan Shiray plays a young Israeli soldier in Foxtrot. The characters in the films of Samuel Maoz are all trapped in one way or another. His 2009 drama, Lebanon, was a blistering critique of ...
Israel director Samuel Maoz’s last feature was the tensely claustrophobic “Lebanon” which took place inside an Israeli tank during the 1982 Lebanon War. “Foxtrot,” his first narrative film in eight ...
The foxtrot is a dance where, no matter how many steps you take, you end up back in the place you started. At least, that’s the definition according to Michael Feldmann (Lior Ashkenazi), a prosperous ...
If you can create three riveting, impeccable, emotionally impassioned movies, you’ve had a directing career worth celebrating. In “Foxtrot,” Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz has made his trifecta all at ...
The characters in the films of Samuel Maoz are all trapped in one way or another. His 2009 drama, Lebanon, was a blistering critique of Israel’s 1982 invasion of its northern neighbor and an ...